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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1264, 21 May 1896, Page 9

At a meeting at Sunderland between representatives of tho employers and tho workmen connected with the iron and stool industries in the shipbuilding yards on tho Tyne, Wear and Tees in reference to tho application from the workmen for an advance of wages, tho employers conceded an advance of Is fid per week, and 5 per cent, on pieco prices. Tho new rate comes into operation this month and holds good until Oetobor. About 20,000 men aro affected. The Routgen rays aro going to stop tho practice of sending coin through the post in a manner contrary to tho regulations, in a recent experiment, a sovereign wrapped in a uowspaper several times folded was clearly seen, and another coin was also revealed between the leaves of a largo volume with thick covers.

Mr Copeland, an ex-Ministor, speaking at tt licensed victuallers’ picnic in New South Wales tho other day, urged that itwasneithor reasonable nor fair that in a country such as theirs, where the people spent so much of their leisure in open-air recreation, it should bo impossible to make use of the hotels on Sundays or holidays. If nature had intended that man should not liavo a drink on Sunday, nature would have constructed him after tho fashion of tho camel—with a second stomach —so that ho might bo enabled to take in enough liquor on Saturday to last him until Monday morning. (Laughter.) Ho was an advocate for tho hotels being allowod to open on Sundays in town from 1 o’clock till 2, and from 9 o’clock to 10. In tho suburbs thoy .should bo permitted to koop opon from 2 o’clock to 4 in tho winter, and from 2 o’clock to sin the summer. (Hear, hoar.)